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Aug 2, 2018 — The Swedish master finds desire and despair in the fashion world in a key transitional film from 1955.
The Daily
Aug 2, 2018 — The fall festivals expand their lineups. Plus, a new teaser for Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk.
Visual Analysis
Jul 31, 2018 — The award-winning director of The Rider explores the deep respect for nature and subjective human experience in Terrence Malick’s masterful vision of early seventeenth-century America.
Jul 30, 2018 — At a time when women were rarely seen behind the camera, Babette Mangolte created a bold, distinctive aesthetic with a mix of slow rhythms and hauntingly static compositions.
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Jul 30, 2018 — Retrospectives of the French master’s work are playing in New York and Berkeley, with Washington to follow in September.
On the Channel
Jul 30, 2018 — Cinematographer Robby Müller, who passed away earlier this month at the age of seventy-eight, was renowned for his sensitive use of natural light and the economy of his striking compositions. When he joined forces with Lars von Trier for 1996’s Breaking...
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Jul 30, 2018 — Adaptations of Wuthering Heights have been a mixed bag.
On the Channel
Jul 27, 2018 — “We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts,” Bergman once wrote to Ullmann—and that emotional intensity gave fuel to their extraordinary forty-year collaboration.
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Jul 27, 2018 — Olivier Assayas calls Blain “one of the great, underrated, unknown, under-recognized filmmakers of his time.”
Jul 27, 2018 — In one of the most stunning technical feats in their filmography, directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger envisioned a conveyance that sends souls into the great beyond.